While waiting for John at the Perk, he texted being late and would meet at 10. I was halfway into my coffee and let it go, as I’d one before breakfast already.

Yesterday at the Palliser our company totalled seven all together; we should really meet as a house group, but that’s not Herman’s style. However, I intuit that we will not be going on like this much longer; for now I keep in mind the end of this year.

That used to be just a short walk for me in 2003, but now I have to go slow and take five every now and then.

Don and I were supposed to meet at Kingsland last Thursday, but I had a soup all by myself. I was not sure we’d planned to meet and neither was Don; better next time. On the way down, Elbow drive north bound was packed solid from the Elbow river at Lansdowne ave all the way south to passed Glenmore Drive.

So, for my return trip I took the train to Erlton and walked home from there. That used to be just a short walk for me in 2003, but now I have to go slow and take five every now and then. Fifteen years past 67 is not the same as when I was forty say, but I’m doing ok in most respects and am thankful for what I can do. And, that includes this typing and my talks, web work as well as my social visits.

Last Saturday I vacuumed the kitchen and the bathroom, after which I washed their floors, as well as the three floor rugs. This takes place in the bathtub for soaking, agitating and rinsing and is followed by drying these rugs, which takes until the next day.

On the way back from the Palliser on Sunday, I pick up the book titled “What the Mystics Know” by Richard Rohr at the Memorial Park library. Rohr writes in the style of short thought burst, like you find in the old calendar writing, but in a modern style. All good thoughts, but very declarative with little thought development. Incidental inspirational, you could say.

For Christmas 2014 my granddaughter Annie gave me a set of three note booklets called “Field Notes”, which appeals to me as I made many field notes in my professional activities as surveyor and instructor. I titled these three as follows: Book 1: “The Human Narrative”, Book 2: “Personal Journey” and Book 3: “Teachings”.

In Book 1 yesterday I read pages 1 through 6 dated 2014-12-28, which appeared to anticipate the themes I am dealing with now in my talks for this year. One is the need for tolerance among our diverse belief systems, while another deals with the need to maintain identity in our crowded world. It amazed me that these thoughts kind of announced themselves four years before my present talks, where I deal more systematically with these topics!

I view this as a process of making discoveries and being self-responsible rather than one of fulfilling a preordained - by who? - destiny.

In this Book 1 yesterday, I made an entry on pages 23 to 26. The first part is titled ‘Existence Divine’. It is a very fundamental statement about existence, experience, consciousness and interconnectedness.

On page 24 I state five equivalencies between New Thought ideas and ideas I worked out as part of ‘Existence Divine’ changing the personified form - such as ‘Infinite Mind’ - that New Thought uses to more general concept.

My underlying aim here is to find terms for these notions and concepts that are applicable to any other religion in that particular category, such as that of an powerful ‘Upper Being’ as ‘Elohim’ in Genesis of the Old Testament.

On pages 24 and 25 I develop the idea that a conscious human functions as an explorer in ‘Existence Divine’ as he or she [may I use ‘hesh’ as I did in 1991 in my Left_Hand_Work?!] lives ‘hir’ life. I view this as a process of making discoveries and being self-responsible rather than one of fulfilling a preordained - by who? - destiny.

This is not to deny that a human does try to find purpose and meaning in life, but I suggest that just exploring the possible and pushing the boundary is worthwhile since this way we enlarge the range of conscious existence enriching ‘Existence Divine’ which includes all there is.
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